Welcome to 'Global Public Life', an open forum extending the discussions and debates that the academic, peer-reviewed journals Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society (and associated Theory, Culture & Society Book Series) have been fostering in social and cultural theory, along with the wider social sciences and humanities, for over four decades.
Video: Eva Giraud and Gregory Hollin on Care, Laboratory Beagles and Affective Utopia
Video: Alberto Romele and Marta Severo on The Economy of the Digital Gift: From Socialism to Sociality Online
Video: David Newheiser on Foucault, Gary Becker and the Critique of Neoliberalism
Ulrich Beck (1944-2015)
Review: Barbara Cassin et. al., ‘Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon’
Reviewed by Lucie Mercier
Rowland Atkinson: Commentary on Piketty’s and Savage’s Conversation
Benedict Anderson: A Reflection
By Rita Padawangi
Questioning ‘Racial Prescriptions’: An Interview with Jonathan Xavier Inda
Interviewed by Sibille Merz
Remembering Benedict Anderson and his Influence on South Asian Studies
By Rohit K Dasgupta
Review: Pasi Väliaho, Biopolitical Screens: Image, Power, and the Neoliberal Brain
Reviewed by Jakob Nilsson
Review: Sybille Krämer, ‘Medium, Messenger, Transmission: An Approach to Media Philosophy’
Reviewed by David W. Hill
Video: Ole Bjerg on How is Bitcoin Money?
Review: Maurizio Lazzarato, ‘Governing by Debt’
Reviewed by Moritz Altenried
Video: Henning Schmidgen on Cerebral Drawings between Art and Science: On Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophy of Concepts
Video: Anna Harris on Listening-touch, Affect and the Crafting of Medical Bodies through Percussion
Luke Cooper: Commentary on Thomas Piketty and Mike Savage’s Conversation
Africa in Oceania: Thinking Besides the Subaltern
By Robbie Shilliam
Review: Peter Sloterdijk, ‘Der Ästhetische Imperativ: Schriften zur Kunst’
Reviewed by Sascha Rashof